Question

In 200 words, identify three examples of figurative language and explain how they relate to the themes of Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 73."

Answer 1

Answer:

The three examples are thus follows:

The first illustrates aging in comparison to a tree as it loses its leaves in fall season. There is also comparison of death to nightfall--“which by and by black night doth take away death’s second self, that seals up all in rest.” In this sentence, the speaker is alluding to death as the fading of a bright day into a dark night. The third example is that of fire where the speaker tend to be compare himself to fire, “In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire, that on the ashes of his youth doth lie, as the deathbed whereon it must expire, consumed with that which it was nourished by.” Lines 9- 12 somewhat depicts that as the fire dies/quenches, the speaker also does. In lines 3-4, these are also metaphors that describes the word choir which does not refer to only a group of persons singing in a church but also refers to a place where choir sits in church.

Explanation:

Figurative languages are ways we use to amplify and beautify writing. They include simile, metaphor, personification, etc. These are figurative lauguages Shakespeare used as explained above in "Sonnet 73".